Opinion: Lean In, Interns

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I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the foundation associated with Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg ... recently posted an ad for and on to paint in turn in a few her erupted ... luckily we've got assistant editorial features editor Kate Batchelder here ... to explain what that ... deal is over this Facebook posting indicate ... I know I'm the and turned a really long time ... what is the big deal now unpaid internships they were the norm when when I was in that ... part of the workforce while it to be clear this posting was put on the editor of rain in dot org personal Facebook account so she wrote this op and faith that the saying ... she is a part time and paid in turn ... on and then the outrage was just unbelievable that an organization dedicated ... dedicated to empowering women ... would not pay their taxes ... it's an irony to be sure my is an irony because it does benefit women tend to have unpaid internships are now looking to sketch and the organization and a bit of ideological inconsistency as Sandberg's Book advocates for on when in demanding more compensation and twelve it's kind of in and ... it leans a bit of a spot that she's not going to pay for employees but what the actual problem is is that ... Samberg decision to on announce that we can have a paid internship program ... might actually hurt other non profit charity is she backtracked and said he hopes the rewriting you that so after this employee you put up this post on her personal accounts ... standards organization can now lives in a saying ... of all we can do that ... I and so I think that really sets a precedent for other ... non profits and charities ... while he introduced the Howard dual unpaid internships benefited the employees through experience through ... networking mean what's the benefit they're a huge benefit for Aiden college students looking to get on a line on a resume and some experience ... and nonprofit management especially as a big industry and in some foreign ministry that you need ... on the exposure to to know how to do as an internship ... offers is something that you won't see about the nonprofit industry and any other way ... and you can expect a company with an organization with a ... live donor funded bottom line ... to be able to give these kids everything in the world that ... they were ... separately you've been chronicling some court battles ... over unpaid internships is that relating to this on Facebook issuers on a separate now it's it's a spillover it's related to a certain way so ... far been a number of lawsuits against large companies like on in Asan Fox Searchlight on ... selling them for lack of compensation now ... under the fair Labor standards Act there are some requirements that come easy to follow to make unpaid internships illegal ... then very big very subjective and we blow them up to judges to determine the cause a certain number of problems but ... that really reverse the Zacks exams five oh one C3 is from this entire these are nonprofits don't have to pay their insurance ... and if you work and Congress it'll have to pay ... which is a convenient little exception ... but ... so basically ... under the ... King's court rulings are different from this kind of public outrage but for how much longer ... on its easy to see the government getting involved in such a hot topic like the one that P G and an engine wire the millennials with a broad brush here I go ... what happens ... to gratitude for in internship whether it's paid ... for unpaved anyway what's with this generation well I think there are some interesting generational factors not your thing people say this about every generation as they go through but ... the number of reports that say and when you ... have a hard time in workplace isn't just in the workplace as ... I recently came out saying the eleven percent of HR professionals thankful ideals of hard working ... on and that's ... that's really and an overwhelming sense ... that there are some generational differences as we move from baby boomers said it's in the U S and ... one k well you really have to leave it that an appeal comeback in a dentist's assistant editorial feature syndicate Batchelder thank so much for being on mission pics